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Comment by Ormriss

Once again, another quest with a wild drop rate. The gorillas are found east off the road coming from Booty Bay. From the tunnel leading to BB, it's maybe a 30 second run, if that. You can also find another half dozen gorillas west of the road. Good luck on this one...the place is usually camped. I have seen this quest take an hour before the sinew drops, so be prepared.

While you're there, you can triple up on quests. The gorillas drop the giblets needed to finish the quest "Scaring Shaky" in Booty Bay, and they also drop Gorilla Fangs, ten of which you'll need to start "Stranglethorn Fever". The fangs also sell well to vendors if you finish that quest (or have no interest).

Comment by dreampod

Make sure to get the quest Scaring Shaky to do simultaneous with this one since you'll be fighting gorillas anyway. As well make sure to hang onto any Gorilla Fangs so that you can do Stranglethorn Fever.

Comment by neelzfinch

It took me about 45 minutes to make it drop. If you are on a PVP server, avoid fighting at the road around 30,68. You will likely get ganked. Luckily the corpse run won't take long.

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Comment by weaselstomp

im a lvl 38 rogue and it was not bad at all for me dropped on my 7 kill it was really easy

Comment by kusazero

Took me about 1.5 hrs to get it. Crazy drop rate.

However, the drop is sharable among party members. So, you can group up with someone and hasten the kills, especially when there are also Reliance players doing the same quest, your party can secure the place.

Comment by Ironbeer

I got about 16k xp also...definately get your grinding shoes on for this quest, well pretty much for this entire quest chain drops aren't so good

Comment by Buli

Fisrt kill and got it. LOL

Comment by rvltn

I didn't note the time, but I got literally 8 bubbles of xp doing this quest as a 39 mage. The drop rate was ridiculous.34, 65 were my coords. Near the mountain on a hill.

Better luck to everyone else!

Comment by walde

got this on the first kill :) kinda lucky i guess :)

Comment by Deewy

Dropped from the first gorilla just outside BB. :)

Comment by Irrad

38 Blood Elf Paladin. took forever to get this drop solo.

Comment by xEvilxxFaeriex

38 BE Pally

I got this on my 6th gorillaco-ords were 32,61

Good luck!

Comment by zeuss

2nd kill drop ! ;) I was lucky I guess

Comment by houstonkirby

I don't know about luck. I got mine on my 3rd kill.

Comment by iwlaios

Hmm i am very luck :) In second try take the sinew. Coords : 31,60 from elder mistvale gorilla.

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Comment by sorenzo1

And the cords are around32.63 for me could have grinded there for longer easy to kill as druid 41 in cat :D got 22% crit cya

Comment by katsumadarkness

Found the gorilla's at 34, 66. There's a ton of them around this area, so it shouldn't be hard to find them. :)

Comment by Butterlog

Was just about to give up on this quest when it dropped on one of the gorillas I killed on my way to the road...

Comment by meowza

Must have killed 85+ mobs before getting one of these. Hit or miss.

Comment by Kissper82

Actually the quest item dropped for me no more than ten minutes. :DGood luck questing!

Comment by xntrek

33,64 after the 6th Gorilla - seems to correlate well with some of the other postings here - went back twice again, same area seems to drop within a reasonable time frame. Does not seem to be a party drop though.

Comment by olympiax

Agreed. I followed your previous post and after the 6th gorilla it dropped.

Comment by balu0

31.3,59.9

I got it on my 2nd kill from Elder Mistvale Gorilla.

Comment by leaderofall228

OMFG worst quests ever i have been going for hours i have 60 gorilla fangs sitting in my inv ugg i dont even know how many i have killed

Comment by Rohaunlol

Mark me down if I'm wrong.

Someone in the zone told me that the sinew drops from the closest Gorilla to Booty Bay. I thought he was just joking, or superstitious. I decided to try it anyways, starting with the first Gorilla closest to Booty Bay and voila! Sinew dropped on my first kill. It may have just been luck, but it’s worth a shot. Approximate coordinates of the Gorilla is 31.4,68.4

Again, this is most likely just luck and if it is, just mark me down.

Comment by chepe92

Got it a the first kill, very very lucky i guess, around 32.59

Comment by kingriko

Haha got it after 2 kills at coords 34,65 , i was 39 rogue ;)

Comment by shushu

The closest to booty bay is your best bet. took 3 times killed on 2nd respawn

Comment by Dniper

A lot of anecdotal evidence here for a higher drop-rate based on the location of where you killed the gorillas. So I guess I'll throw mine in as well, although against the case.

I just completed this quest for the second time between two of my characters. Out of those two characters I simply randomly killed the gorillas without a preference to close or far away. Out of those two times the first drop was from a kill that was one of the farthest from BB, and the second drop on my other character was from a kill around the middle of where the spawn points are. Also, taking into account others who have reported their drops with coordinates that were given at seemingly random locations and not "nearer" to BB.. I would say there is probably no correlation between the location you kill an Elder Mistvale Gorilla and when the quest item will drop.

When things like this occur people tend to report the hits and ignore the misses. Another thing is people will kill just the gorillas near BB, so when it does finally drop it seems like it is confirming the superstition. Anyway, please don't take this argument as an insult or anything. I know we're all pattern-seeking humans and we'll look for patterns even when there aren't any (I've been guilty of this myself!).

Comment by Daco

90 kills. 90! (assuming MobHealth is tallying things correctly).

Mine came from one of the gorillas well up the road from Booty Bay, certainly not one of the closer ones. I think this really is just random with an incredibly and annoyingly low drop rate. But it was good grinding if you are into that sort of thing. And at level 41 my skinning skill is now up to 284/300, thanks in part to this quest.

Comment by Stormkoopa

55% into lvl 40 when I started, or about 34000 xp to go / 250 xp per kill that's 136 kills when I dinged 41 before I gave up and dropped the quest. I understand the purpose of grinding quests, but I would rather collect 50 yeti nose hairs at 100% than have to find 1 pristine one at 2%.

Comment by Zaanikui

7 kills on the west side of the road and 3rd kill on the east side rendered the sinew for me. kill was at 33,62 (Titan Panel)

Comment by chanogi

I found them at 31, 60, and if you are lucky like me you will get it on the first drop, lol.

Comment by monkey70756

Wow....bad luck for u guys I guess. I killed 2 gorillas and than got the Sinew. WOOT. Chords are 35,65.

Comment by R4p70r

killed 3, and got my sinew

Comment by haugen84

This is the worst quest ever! The item never drops!!!

Comment by droogii

Seems as though this may have been fixed for the new patch, got my drop after only 5 kills.

Comment by stahlJ

I'm pretty sure it's perfectly random.

Got mine after about 20 kills, which means I was medium lucky.People with 100+ kills are just unlucky as hell.

Comment by morgen

36,64Dropped on first kill.

Comment by rickhunter

listen to stickdead i went to his cords and it droped is less than five minutes for me

Comment by theinsane

It may be painful to kill these damn dirty apes hour after hour with no drop, but just remember - every one you kill that doesn't drop it gets you no closer to the one that does.

Comment by Ladiejayne

Over 4 bars exp (level 39) six stacks of heavy leather. One stack of thick leather (20) .... I quit skinning when I ran out of room At this point I'm not going to finish this quest. I'll leave it in my quest bag until I leave BB. However, right now, my luck could not get much worse. :(

Comment by ozzerr

hehe!:D Mine droped after 1 kill! haha!:D

Comment by kikki

122 kills in and it has finally dropped, at least the quest gives you an OVERWHELMING feel of relief after the item has dropped.. nearly makes all of that pointless grinding seem worthwhile :)

Comment by swepyro

1 kill dropp at 32.60

Comment by bewarewow

Actually i ve been randomly huntin some gorrilas for 20 mins aproximmately and i went to hunt at 33.60 and with my first kill i got it :)

Comment by wowhunter0887

lol...i guess i was just lucky...got it on second drop..took my friend 4 hours.

Comment by Pleistarchos

got it on my 8th kill at 32, 68. saw 2 ally but they just kept riding.

Comment by miro288

is it elder mistvale gorillas or silverback partriarch

Comment by mambabg

According to your hard finding in this i have to have more luck than anyone in the whole universe , it dropped from the first Gorilla i killed xD

Comment by zghuk

Drop rate must be adjusted. I killed about 10 apes and it dropped! Short quest chain now :D

Comment by Fujilives

Hey, this might be just me - but I couldn't get it off the gorillas "just outside" of booty bay, you need to go out just a little bit more and you will see a zone name change - (I forget what its called but its not "written" on the map) - go up towards where the shaman npc guy for the other gorilla quest is, and you'll see a little valley opening back up towards the road - the second I went past there the area-name changed and I got it first drop - this happens sometimes, where you need to be in a different "zone name" to trigger drops. Give it a try if you are having a hard time with this quest!

Comment by Dannemoora

This quest is a pain in the ass if you not got a fast lucky drop. Kept me searching for atleast 20 minutes.

Comment by ninja29

is the only way to do this quest is having skinning as a profession

Comment by Hewett

Can i flag this as one of the most annoying quests ever? A terrible droprate in my case... I have killed the whole population of elder mistvale gorillas twice...and no drop. No skinning either. I give up...

Comment by Lmjkdd6

Did they change the drop rate? Because I got it on my 2nd kill.

:)

Comment by Reeceh

I got it after about 5-7 Kills

Comment by DavronM

The amount of Gorillas I killed...WoW PETA will be up my ass.

Comment by gangzstarz

i thought lets do 2 quest at the time needed only one senew and 5 hearth. so i hoped they droped at the same time:D, but no!:S killed FRickinG 50 of those damm monkeys for it..goddamed. the worst part is the fact that i had to MB every 4 monkeys... best day ever for the food en drink vendor at BB

Comment by Squeaker

I went around killing those gorillas for about an hour and still no drop.... I eventually got so frustrated that I just left, haven't gone back yet. So hopefully it'll drop again soon.

But damn, I wanted to nuke those gorillas after throwing every conceivable cuss word at them, hahaha.

Edit: So I went back a couple days later, took me 6 kills to get the sinew.

Comment by meg11hyn

It dropped on my first kill.

Comment by djswat

Spent about a good oh....HOUR killing gorillas and getting pwned by alliance. Such a wonderful quest, and not to mention the armor repair bill afterward. Found mine when I said enough and was leaving the area. Damn ape right where you run in...got 9 bars with 38 lock and lvl 39 once turned in. If I got 1 silver for every swear word I said after about the 20th one I could prolly buy a lvl 60 mount!

Comment by Fapper

Wow! I got the sinew after the 1st Gorilla.

Comment by ReAn

Seriously, I get some very variant results with this quest.

Did it on my rogue about 3 months ago, got it on my 8th kill, this time around on my paladin it took me roughly 67 kills to get.

Comment by montypythizzle

IDK but took a LOT of time and got my skinning to 300 and about 2 bars at 42. At least the leather drops were good?

Comment by Lmjkdd6

Why was my comment downrated?

Comment by VioletDidi

And... it's not a shared drop if you're in a party.Fun fun fun.

Comment by Zathenta

Well it only took me about 5 kills so im happy

Comment by hcmil1

lol... u know all those q's whit raptor,panther and tiger mastery... but after them... u get a new named the master hunter or something... but i got this phyco bow and soloed all q's... whit luck... and my luck came back... got it on my 1st

Comment by hcmil1

And i was lvl 34 at all the q's

Comment by Zondad000Medaf

I have killed almost every gorilla in the !@#$%^& vale and i still dont have my sinew.

wth?

Comment by Discombobulator

As of 3.1 this quest still takes TOO LONG TO COMPLETE

Comment by Tropix

Very low drop rate.

Comment by Llamalords

I got in the first 5-10 minutes

Comment by Niteangel18

It took me about 30 minutes when I did it. I got something like 15 gorilla hairs, 5 teeth, 1 large fang. I started reading the different posts, figuring it would take a while. I went up to the den and ran back down and attacked the gorilla I found at the bottom of the slope and boom! there was the sinew....it was easy in my opinion. I was a lvl 43 at this point (barely into 43) and got almost 3 bars of xp for the kills of this quest.

Good Luck!

Comment by HamperedBiscuit

i found the gorilla behind a tree by the mountain... just look around there...roughly 34,67...took me like 10-20 mins i guess....the drop rate is crazy but just keep going... try to double up on quests...

GLHF

Comment by myescape101

Seriously, worst drop rate ever.

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Comment by diomedesthegreat

killed every stinking gorilla in the vale three times and still nothing. is this quest really worth it is what you need to ask before squandering the precious gift of life killing a bunch of mobs who don't even drop anything of value

Comment by phx08

This quest took around 2 hours of constant killing of gorilla's. Finally found one that dropped the item at 31,67. Got around 5 bars of xp at level 41. Tried to take on 3-4 gorillas at a time (Bld El. Pally).

Comment by Ravelle

Got it after 31 kills, I feel kind of raped.

But compared to some of you other guys, I feel lucky.What a strange feeling.

Comment by knerf

5th kill as a level 36 hunter.....33.85-63.74. .......dropped off a lev 41 gorilla

Comment by Trelani10

Another horrible drop rate quest (And I thought Helcular's Revenge was bad!). After about 40+ kills I finally got it. If you have patience and like grinding then this is the quest for you. Otherwise move on.

Comment by lutador

At least the quest giver isn't lying. "Quite a few kills" indeed.

Comment by hornsworth

I may have skinned over 100 Heavy Leather from grinding for this quest, simply because an alliance party was killing all of the gorillas and not skinning any of them. This may have added a considerable amount of time onto what I spent getting the sinew, and I think my eventual kill count was around 30. As for pattern seeking, I used to do it while grinding for gear on Vagrant Story, so I know not to go down that road again, it only leads to the dark side.

Comment by thunderblood

well it was pretty long to complete...but its took like 12-14 mins=)))

Comment by georgero3

I kill 15-20 gorilla and the Aged Gorilla Sinew has drop !

Comment by Chapman2233

3.3 Still takes so long!

Comment by Tikta

OMG.. After Reading the comment about how long it might take i was EXTREAMLY surprized when only 26 kills and 14 mins later i got the Aged Gorilla Sinew!

Comment by matwe

I got my loot on my twentieth kill.

Comment by claptonisgod95

the drop rate is ridiculous, i have 5 stacks of leather but no damn sinew

Comment by IbFeeshin

Saurfang got 2 off 1 mob, first kill.

Comment by vlapport

Droprate 'might' have inproved looking at the stories here. I killed the entire valley once, and it dropped for me on the last mob. Maybe luck, or they increased the drop chance.